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Stargazing: Catch Up With Your Another World Favorites With a Brand-New Album Full of Beautiful Then-and-Now Photos
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
They still send us into orbit.
There are a lot of things that time changes for the worse. The length of our already-short fuses. Those leftovers that got pushed to the back of the fridge and then forgotten for two weeks. Our ability to stay up past 10 o’clock, no matter how few glasses of wine we’ve had.
But one thing, remarkably, never fails to change for the better, and that’s our memories of Another World.
Every year, we’d swear we reflect even more fondly than the last one on the NBC soap that was cancelled in 1999 to make room for Passions. It still hurts that it’s gone. Always will, we reckon. (Check out pictures from its 35-year run here.) But today, let’s not dwell on what we’ve lost. Instead, let’s focus on what we’ve found.
“And what is that?” you ask.
A whole bunch of glorious then-and-now photos of many of our former Bay City favorites, from three actresses who played twins Victoria and Marley Hudson to the Brady Bunch star who was hired in the ’80s to be the soap’s teenage dream and the scene-stealing ingenue who became a primetime mainstay (and far fewer than six degrees of separation from fellow daytime alum Kevin Bacon).
There are even lovely shots of the Another World supercouple whose real-life marriage has already lasted for more than 30 years. (Off screen, she was never recast.)
To take a nostalgia trip back to Bay City and get updates on the actors, just click on the photo gallery below.
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Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, J. Graylock/JPI
1/22
<p>Nope, that’s not a newly found member of <em>The Lost Boys</em> on the left, that’s the heartthrob who played Dean Frame off and on from 1993-98. You’re just as likely to recognize him from his longer run on <em>Guiding Light</em> as Gus Aitoro.</p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Jill Johnson/JPI
2/22
<p>You name the show — <em>JAG</em>, <em>The King of Queens</em>, <em>House</em>, <em>ER</em>, <em>Castle</em>, <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em> — and odds are, the actress who played Sofia Carlino has done it. (Don’t look those up; she really <em>has</em> done them all.)</p>
Image: NBC, Arlene Richie/JPI
3/22
<p>Following his 1981-85 stay in Bay City as the Cory family’s black sheep Sandy, the Texas native, once married to Nancy Frangione (Cecile), appeared in everything from <em>Murphy Brown</em> to <em>Boston Legal.</em></p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Jill Johnson/JPI
4/22
<p>Just 16 when she made her TV debut as hopeless romantic Julia Shearer, the better half of Kevin Bacon went on to win a Golden Globe for her portrayal of the title character in <em>The Closer.</em></p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Jill Johnson/JPI
5/22
<p>If you only know her as <em>Murphy Brown</em>’s Corky Sherwood, we understand; the ditsy part is iconic. But her portrayer <em>did</em> get her start as a recast of Sedgwick as Julia.</p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Jill Johnson/JPI
6/22
<p>From 1993-97, the hunk was the soap’s go-to eye candy as Tomas Rivera. Once he exited stage left, he began an impressive primetime career that’s included roles on <em>24</em>, <em>Blackout</em> and <em>Insecure</em>.</p>
Image: Netflix/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, NBC, Jill Johnson/JPI
7/22
<p>Married since 1991, the actors who made Catlin Ewing and Sally Frame not just a couple but a super one have gone on to amass an enviable list of credits on their way to becoming screenwriters.</p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Jill Johnson/JPI
8/22
<p>There was a brief, awesome moment in the early 1980s when it looked like the erstwhile Peter Brady of <em>Brady Bunch</em> fame might become a serious actor. In that brief, awesome moment, he visited <em>Another World</em> as Denny Hobson.</p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Jill Johnson/JPI
9/22
<p>The onetime <em>Remote Control</em> hostess followed her 1991-94 stint as supervixen Lorna Forbes with roles on primetime series ranging from <em>JAG</em> to <em>Dawson’s Creek</em>, from <em>Shameless</em> to <em>Empire</em>.</p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, George De Sota/JPI
10/22
<p>The first actress to win an Emmy for her work as twins Marley and Vicky Hudson went on to score a second statuette for <em>All My Children</em> (where she played daytime’s first AIDS casualty) and executive-produce the last days of <em>Guiding Light.</em></p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, J. Graylock/JPI
11/22
<p>The sky was the limit for this Emmy winner after her stint as Marley and Vicky. She went on to star in everything from big-budget blockbusters (<em>Six Days, Seven Nights</em>) to her own series (<em>Men in Trees</em>).</p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Sean Smith/JPI
12/22
<p>The <em>One Life to Live</em> vet (as Sarah Gordon) took over from Heche as Marley/Vicky, then popped up on <em>As the World Turns</em> (as ill-fated Vicky), <em>General Hospital</em> and <em>The Young and the Restless.</em></p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Howard Wise/JPI
13/22
<p>In the aftermath of the show’s cancellation, the soap vet who’d played shady Grant Harrison made his directorial debut and, sadly, split from Colleen Zenk (Barbara, <em>As the World Turns</em>), his wife of nearly a quarter of a century.</p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, CW/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
14/22
<p>How do you top a role like that of troublemaker Cindy Harrison? For the native of Portland, Ore., with star turns on<em> The Suite Life of Zack & Cody</em> (and its spinoff) and <em>Supernatural</em>, that’s how.</p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Howard Wise/JPI
15/22
<p>After five years as Ryan Harrison, the fan favorite was killed off on screen, at which point the onetime Juilliard student returned to the stage in productions of <em>All’s Well That Ends Well</em> and <em>1776</em>.</p>
Image: NBC, Jill Johnson/JPI
16/22
<p>The first-ever Black woman to win a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress, the <em>227</em> vet, once Bay City bad girl gone good Lily Mason, now plays Paulina Price on <em>Days of Our Lives.</em></p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Jill Johnson/JPI
17/22
<p>He’ll always be too-sexy-for-his-shirt Michael Sinclair to us, but the New Jersey native has passed through one series (<em>Castle Rock</em>) after another (<em>Greenleaf</em>) after another (<em>Hawaii Five-0</em>).</p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Jill Johnson/JPI
18/22
<p>The Emmy winner, who left <em>Days of Our Lives</em> for <em>Another World</em> in 1991 to replace Cali Timmins as Paulina Cory, eventually returned to Salem, first as Adrienne Johnson, then Bonnie Lockhart.</p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Priscilla Grant/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
19/22
<p>Holding out for a hero? Here he is — and as handsome as heck, too. As soon as <em>Another World</em> ceased to orbit in 1999, he took primetime by storm on <em>NYPD Blue</em> and <em>Agents of Shield.</em></p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, John Nacion/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
20/22
<p>Her exit from <em>Another World</em> after a highly successful 1993-98 run as law enforcer Josie Watts didn’t make nearly the headlines as did the <em>Third Watch</em> vet’s “death” on <em>Blue Bloods</em> in 2017.</p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, J. Graylock/JPI
21/22
<p>Following a run on <em>Home and Away</em> in his native Australia, the born head-turner brought his charisma to Bay City as Ian Rain. From there, he took Hollywood by storm in <em>Nip/Tuck</em>, <em>FBI: Most Wanted</em> and so on.</p>
Image: NBC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Jill Johnson/JPI
22/22
